On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:22:43PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:05:34 -0700 > Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> wrote: > > > dancerj, what's the status of #155892 with upstream? Is this going to be > > considered/applied there, or do we have to deal with it in other ways? > > The upstream is going the other direction with handling versioned symbols. > They will introduce versioned symbols in the future, but we know > that it will require a full rebuild with the new packages, which > I don't think is ideal. "The other direction"? > Not using RTLD_GLOBAL would be a good idea. I've filed upstream bug #91767 on glib to request a way to use the module loading without RTLD_GLOBAL. > the development package for those libraries should depend on libpng[23]-dev, > because they are loading libpng[23] in the shared namespace. The development package doesn't need to depend on these. The problem exists, we know what it is, and we should fix it, rather than hack around it by making things uninstallable if there might be a problem. -- Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (rmurray@cyberhqz.com, rmurray@debian.org) The opinions expressed here are my own.
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